The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

II The Vandalia Is shipping daily from Lake
N AZ. xinkuckee southwark, forty carloads of ice.
i meeting of the Middle and Western States
n amber pool has been called at Columbus o.,
u an Thursday OF this week
NJ With the retirement of Mr. Renhart from the
n cos,ton of assistant general passenger agent OF
4 tbe Lake Shore, the Office has been abolished.
i e. L. Dickson, late auditor OF the l., B. & W.
u road, who left the company with becouded
u record is now publishing newspaper in Mon
Il tana
II f. Henderson, general manager of the l., |
N p. e w lines who has been in Chicago for sew |
q ara1 DAVIS working on pool matters, will return
n this morning.
n The officials of the c., HI. & D. company, on
II Friday and Saturday of last week, made an in
snection trip over the Cincinnati, Wabash &
4 Michigan road.
II NJ Mcdonald. general manager of the Cairo,
81 yincennes & Chicago road, was in the city, yes
terday to attend the funeral of his brother,
4 Frank Mcdonald.
II The l., D. & S. elevator is blockaded, and for
The time being the order that all grain coming in
N over that road must 90 through their elevator is
M partially rescinded
NJ Ed Fishback travelling passenger agent Of the
vi St Paul. NJ. & NJ. road WILL on the Goth of this
Nj month, be married to Miss Callie Rocker
N daughter of Calvin Rocker.
1 Jerry Keneworthy, travelling auditor of the A..
III T. g. S +. road, will, on the 18th of this month";
av be married to Miss May McEwen, of Terre
II haute. Mr. Keneworthy's headquarters are in
m Trinidad, Col.
III D. F. Whitcomb. superintendent of the Union
"A railway and Belt road, who has been crippled
Al for some days past as to confne him to the
n house, is much improved that he expects to
a be at his Office to-day.
81 Kngan & Co, of this city, have for
81 believing that east bound rates on provisions
being cut out OF Chicago, and they have asked
the indianapolis roads over which they ship to
meet the Chicago rates
NJ Captain Hennesey special agent Of the Van
. dalia, who has been confined to his house by
broken ankle for some weeks, is about again on
q crutches and expects in couple of weeks, to be
able to assume his usual duties.
III THE forty third bound volume of the Finan-
II ria Chronicle embracing the period from July
to Dec 81. 1886 is out, and adds one more vol
II ume TO that business library which is so valua-
N Bile to every railroad and business
nj In the week ending JAM the FIVE Western
III roads brought into Indianapolis 1854 loaded
u cars against z, 928 the corresponding week OF
Al 1856 and against 1908 the corresponding week
1885 and 3, l43 the corresponding week 1884.
Sd The FIVE leading Eastern lines. namely. the
Bee-line the o., St l.. & P, the l., B. & W.,
III the c. II. & l., and the c., l., St. L. & c., last
III week forwarded east from this point 3O36 loaded
: cars against 2, 78l the corresponding week 1886
= An official notice issued Saturday, from
.. Union Pacific headquarters announcing the APP
pointment OF u. NJ. Cumming assistant gen.
|. eIsl manager of that road For the past six
4 months he has held the position of general land
n commissioner.
-t The baggagemen the Wabash road have re-
\ ceived notice from Headquarters ordering that
q N under circumstances whatever shall trunks
n be checked hereafter which contain jewelrv
This ruling has been in vogue on Western roads
\ for some time, and was made necessary by the
: \ frequent claims for heavy damages
I'll The newspapers are quick to agree that the
q time has come for the abolition of the stove in
b the railway car. The Worcester Gazette voices
n popular sentiment when 1t says I'VE hope the
Il Railroad Commissioners will act in this matter,
n II and act promptly. They may be sure Of having
N the public behind them"
N The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has COM
n pleted thirty two freight locomotives, weighing
b sixty tons each. They will haul forty five loaded
n cars each, against thirty five cars by locomotives
nj now in use. As soon as the bridges have been
b strene thened sufficiently to accommodate them
nj the new locomotives will be put into
II VIM r. McKeen has been again elected presi-
dent of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis road.
this being the twentieth time he has been elect
n ed to that position. The directors have declared
their usual per cent. semi annual dividend.
The official roster of this well managed road
never changes, unless death removes one of the
: q number.
al New Albany Ledger railroad line is being
. II surveyed through Bloomington and Monroe
: county, and the Bloomington newspapers cannot
ind out so much about II as even the name OF
n the companv. When railroad starts ont in
this part of Indiana it mighty soon reveals itself
n 4 by asking the city. or township, county
n through which it passes to vote it 2-per-cent
tax
II A. L. Fowble, chief clerk Of G. A. Allen mas
ter of trains the Bee-line indianapolis di
I yision) mas resigned, and left yesterday for e.
= Paso, Tex, where he has accepted the position
4 of chief train dispatcher the Mexican & Cen
n ! trail railroad. Cap quite favorite among
y \ the Decline boys, and they all regretted tt
n see him 60, but wish him in his new field
n I of labor
Indications now are that E. 3. Thomas will
soon have Z, 600 miles of railroad under his gen
n erai managership the next move in the gen
NJ I eral scheme of consolidation is said to be the
q control of the East Tennessee and the Memph
n q Charleston by the Norfolk & Western. ani
= the combination of these last three with tn,
= Richmond Terminal, thus giving this latter com
pauy control of about seven Thousand miles o
u roads
NJ Terre Haute Mail: The friends of Charlie
M Taylor, the VandalIa conductor, SO unjustly con
g. vcted OF manslaughter at Plymouth, are arrang
m ing to give him benefit ball at Bowling Hall il
"a February. The idea is meeting with encourage
= ment and the result will doubtless be the reali
Eation or q handsome sum of money for himsel
AND family The feeling is general that his con
vlcton was unjust and his friends will expres
this In substantial manner if the opportunit
III is allowed them.
FL. %. Waterman, theatrical agent of III
- Pennsylvania lines, headquarters Cleveland O.
- has resigned, and the position has haan eho1
"a ished. 1t is gradually creeping through tn
10 'craniums' Of general passenger agents that tn
= theatrical business now handled is a leak O
earnings In the fret place, troupes are carrie
at very low rates: then to secure such troupe
= about one half the number demand passes an
= shen a carload Of baggage must be hauled 70
nothing, and IN case train Is late specis
srain has to be run to accommodate the troupe
q Philadelphia papers still scoring the ne,
~ management Of the Philadelphia 81 Reading roa
xor the radical changes they are making, NOR
~ especially that so many of the old employees ar